Loading screen hangs : Fallout: New Vegas

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:36 am

Here is the problem: I save very regularly hoping that I can revert to an older save in case something goes wrong. Whenever I start the game and try to load my latest save, the loading screen comes up, the little ball spins happily in the roulette graphic...and then the screen starts flickering and the ball in the roulette shakes back and forth, and that's the end of it. Mind, the game does NOT freeze...I can still hear the background noises and the music as if the game had loaded up properly. For example, if I hit the button to bring up the Pipboy, I can hear the sound effect the game makes when the Pipboy comes up. So, it looks like the game HAS loaded, but the only thing I can see is a flickering loading screen.

What I typically do is restart Fallout NV and try to load up previous saves...and the trick typically works going back about 10-15 minutes (3-4 saves) into older saves. Although lately I have started to get the same problem during in-game loading (e.g., I go from an indoor location to outdoor, the game loads the outdoor location, and puf the loading screen "freezes"). Update: impossible to continue playing, loading screen hangs EVERY time now.

Please let me know if others are having the same issue (and if so if you have reported it as a bug to Bethesda), and if you can recommend any solution. Thank you.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:34 am

Here is the problem: I save very regularly hoping that I can revert to an older save in case something goes wrong. Whenever I start the game and try to load my latest save, the loading screen comes up, the little ball spins happily in the roulette graphic...and then the screen starts flickering and the ball in the roulette shakes back and forth, and that's the end of it. Mind, the game does NOT freeze...I can still hear the background noises and the music as if the game had loaded up properly. For example, if I hit the button to bring up the Pipboy, I can hear the sound effect the game makes when the Pipboy comes up. So, it looks like the game HAS loaded, but the only thing I can see is a flickering loading screen.

What I typically do is restart Fallout NV and try to load up previous saves...and the trick typically works going back about 10-15 minutes (3-4 saves) into older saves. Although lately I have started to get the same problem during in-game loading (e.g., I go from an indoor location to outdoor, the game loads the outdoor location, and puf the loading screen "freezes"). Update: impossible to continue playing, loading screen hangs EVERY time now.

Please let me know if others are having the same issue (and if so if you have reported it as a bug to Bethesda), and if you can recommend any solution. Thank you.

Bumping this old thread because I had the exact same issue with my game and I figured out how to fix it. On a whim I decided to turn off the anti-aliasing, which was previously set to 4x and voila: loading savegames works perfectly. 8x also causes the loading screen to hang, it just has to be shut off.

I just wish I had fiddled with the video options prior to reinstalling my graphics drivers and the game about 3 times a piece, would've saved me a lot of time...

Anyway, hopefully this helps out somebody else because I looked all over and found no solution.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:05 am

i have the same exact problem...looking for solutions because i cant figure it out. even reinstalling with either the cd or steam it wont fix it.

EDIT: i just saw that if you disable the AA it will be fixed. i wish i would have seen that because im currently reinstalling for the 5th time.
I wish they would fix this bug because i always play games with max settings and get 60+ fps